He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.

I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power.

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But I perceive your thoughts; you do not credit my narrative and do not intend to pursue my enemy with the punishment which is his desert.

His tale is connected and told with an appearance of the simplest truth, yet I own to you that the letters of Felix and Safie, which he showed me, and the apparition of the monster seen from our ship, brought to me a greater conviction of the truth of his narrative than his asseverations, however earnest and connected.